MS-05 : MANAGEMENT OF MACHINES AND MATERIALS

ASSINGNMENT

Course Code : MS-05

Course Title : Management of Machine and
Material
Assignment Code : 05/TMA/SEM-1I/2009
Coverage : All Blocks

Answer all the questions

1. a) Discuss the systems concepts in Production System.

b) List five symptoms of a poorly managed transport corporation.

2. Discuss the factors that influence the location of a plant with reference to thermal
and nuclear power plant.

3. Define job design. How has management viewed job design since the industrial
revolution?

4. What are the different types of maintenance systems? How Tero-technology is

related to maintenance management, Discuss.

5. Define value Engineering and its objectives. Discuss the various approaches for
value engineering and analysis.

6. Discuss the function of Materials Management. Explain selective inventory

control
Course Code: MS 06
Course Title: Marketing for Managers
Assignment Code: MS-06/Sem-II/2009
Coverage: All Blocks

Note: Please attempt all the questions and send it to the

Coordinator of the study center you are attached with

1 a) Define Marketing. Distinguish product marketing and services marketing with

suitable examples.

b) How would you reply to the small business person who says, “Marketing Research
is too expensive, so the firm will just have to get by without it’?

2 a) What are the steps in the consumer decision making process? Do all consumers
decisions involve these steps.

b) Discuss the role of personal selling and advertising in promoting industrial

products. How does it compare to consumer product promotion.

3 a) Why do many firms use a family brand? What are the risks associated with this
strategy if a new product is sub-standard?

b) Consider the following statement and discuss: “The only thing that channel
intermediaries do is to increase price for the consumer.”

4 a) Discuss the stages in New Product Development process giving suitable examples

b) What is cyber marketing and how is it different from conventional marketing?

Discuss the limitations of cyber marketing.
 ASSISGMENT
MS-07 : INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MANAGERS

Course code : MS-07

Course Title : Information Systems for Managers
Assignment No. : 07/TMA? SEM-I/2009
Coverage : All Block

Attempt all the questions.

1. What is the purpose of a computer aided decision support system? What are the
major components of such a system? How does it help the decision making
process?

2. “In the end, the information system is recognized as a foundation for human
judgment, in sight and inventiveness”. Discuss in detail.

3. What are the types of Inventory Management Systems? Define them and partition
further classes. Also, briefly explain each subdivision.

4. Discuss in detail the different types of computer bases information system used in
different functional areas business by organizations. Who are the typical user of
information system?

5. Describe the modern practices and emerging trends related do technology, design
and security issues involved in e-commerce.
 ASSIGNMENT

Course Code : MS 08
Course Title : Quantitative Analysis for Managerial
Applications
Assignment No. : 08/TMA/SEM-II/2009
Coverage : All Blocks

Note: Attempt all the questions and send it to the coordinator of the study centre, you are
attached with.

1. Write a detailed note on Normal Distribution, Standard Normal Variety and the
Central Limit Theorem. Illustrate the concepts with the help of diagrams.

2. From the following data compute quartile deviation and the coefficient of
skewness:

Size 4.5-7.5 7.5-10.5 10.5-13.5 13.5-16.5 16.5-19.5

Frequency 14 24 38 20 4

3. A bank has a test designed to establish the credit rating of a loan application. If
the persons, who default (D), 90% fail the test (F). Of the persons, who will repa
the bank (ND), 5 % fail the test. Furthermore, it is given that 4% of the population
is not worthy of credit (i.e. defaulters). Given that someone failed the test, what is
the probability that he actually will default (When given the loan)?

4. Two laboratories A and B carry out independent estimates of fat content in ice
cream made by a firm. A sample taken from each batch gives the following fat
content:

Batch No- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Lab A 7 8 7 3 8 6 9 4 7 8
Lab B 9 8 8 4 7 7 9 6 6 6
 Is there a significant difference between the mean fat-content obtained by the two
laboratories A and B?
5. Given the bivariate data:

X 1 5 3 2 1 1 7 3
Y 6 1 0 0 1 2 1 5

a. Fit a regression line of Y on X and hence predict Y if X=10

b. Fit a regression line of X on Y and hence predict X if Y =2.5